For
a moment, imagine a future where you are not
able to drive a car, get on a plane, get on a
train, vote, enter a federal building, open a
bank account or get a job without a national ID
card. You don't think that could ever happen in
America? Well, you might want to brush up on the
Real ID Act because it is going to go into
effecton
May 11, 2011 unless something is done
to stop it. When I first learned this, I
was absolutely stunned. After all, wasn't
the Real ID Act supposed to be "dead"? A
few years ago state legislatures across the
nation were in an uproar over this law.
The Department of Homeland Security was forced
to delay implementation of it several
times. But now it is back. You see,
this is what the federal government often
does. They will try to push something very
unpopular through, and if they meet resistance
they will "play dead" until the uproar has died
down and then they will come right back and
implement it anyway. This is what is
happening with the Real ID Act.
As
of May 11, all driver's licenses across the
United States will be required to conform to
federal national security standards. In
essence, our licenses are now going to be
federalized.
Yes,
this is really happening. A
Fox News article from a couple weeks
ago confirmed that these "national ID cards"
will be required to board airplanes and enter
federal buildings....
States must be in compliance by May with the regulations laid out in the 2005 REAL ID Act. The law, a recommendation of the Sept. 11 commission that investigated the 2001 terror attacks, creates a national security standard for state-issued identification cards to be used for purposes like boarding airplanes and entering federal buildings.
Isn't
that great?
Now
security goons will be able to ask us for our
"papers" just like they used to do in Nazi
Germany and the USSR.
Back
in 2008, former U.S. Representative Bob
Barr wrote
the following about how not having
one of these new national ID cards will
automatically strip us of some of our most
fundamental rights....
"A person not possessing a Real ID Act-compliant identification card could not enter any federal building, or an office of his or her congressman or senator or the U.S. Capitol. This effectively denies that person their fundamental rights to assembly and to petition the government as guaranteed in the First Amendment."
Of
course the Department of Homeland Security
insists that the Real ID Act is just here to
"help" us and to make life "better" and "more
secure". According
to their website, some of the goals of the
Real ID Act are "to help prevent terrorism,
reduce fraud, and improve the reliability and
accuracy of personal identification documents."
But
is this really what we want America to become?
A
nation where we are constantly passing through
checkpoints and where security goons are
constantly checking our national ID card?
What
kind of liberty and freedom is that?
Eventually
these national ID cards will likely be required
for virtually every single interaction that we
have with the federal government.
Can
you imagine the kind of power that the federal
government will have to watch us and track our
activities if this thing gets fully implemented?
The
more you really think about the notion of a
national ID card for Americans the more
repulsive it becomes.
Eventually,
without a "Real ID" you will not be able to be
hired by most employers. So in essence,
you will be required to get the permission of
the federal government before you can work.
Without
a "Real ID", your ability to travel will be
greatly restricted. Eventually there will
be very few modes of public transportation that
you will be able to use without having a
national ID card.
And
what if you lose your national ID card?
Talk about a headache!
Hey,
eventually they might just decide to solve that
problem by putting a microchip directly into our
hands.
Wouldn't
that be convenient?
Can
you see where
all of this is headed? Many of the
people that are attempting to implement this
thing may have "good intentions", but we all
know what they say about "good intentions".
We
do not need a national ID card to have a nation
that is safe and secure.
Please
contact your representatives in Washington D.C.
and let them know that you want the Real ID Act
repealed once and for all.
If
we put up with a national ID card, then the
Obama administration will be emboldened to try
to implement the "universal
Internet ID" that they have been talking
about.
The
sad truth is that America is no longer "the
land of the free". The government
has decided that in order to keep us "safe",
everything that we do must be watched, tracked,
traced, recorded and controlled.
It
doesn't matter whether the Democrats are in
power or if the Republicans are in power - every
year the United States becomes even more like a
prison camp.
Hopefully
the American people will wake up and will
realize that this is not what our founding
fathers intended.
So
what do you all think about the coming
implementation of the Real ID Act? Please
feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts
below.